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" If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. "

Quentin Tarantino

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" I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.' "

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" I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that. "

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" I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo. "

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" When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies. "

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" I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything. "

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" I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good. "

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" It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back. "

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" If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do. "

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" A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. "

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" My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid. "

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" I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced. "

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" 'Django' was definitely the beginning of my political side, and I think 'Hateful Eight' is the... logical extension and conclusion of that. I mean, when I say conclusion, I'm not saying I'll never be political again, but, I mean, I think it's like, in a weird way, 'Django' was the question, and 'Hateful Eight' is the answer. "

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" When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it. "

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" I steal from every movie ever made. "

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" Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself. "

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" My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. "

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" To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. "

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" I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater. "

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